I only work once, then copy that work everywhere.

Good that works for you. If only my needs were so simple that the configs could be same on each machine.

So you’re willing to do a lot of manual package managing, in general put a lot of work into optimizing your workflow, adjusting to different package availability, adjusting to different operating systems…

…but not writing two different configs?

That is your prerogative but you’re not convincing me. Though I don’t think I’ll be convincing you either.

I have separate configs/aliases/etc for most of my machines just because, well, they are different machines with different hardware, software, data, operating systems and purposes. Even for those (most) that I can easily install fish on.

those scripts not always work

This feels like ragebait. I have multiple devices, use fish whenever that can be installed and zsh/bash when not, and have none of these issues.

EDIT:

or some methods to jump to most recent directory like z.

Manually downloading the same shell scripts on every machine is just doing what the package manager is supposed to do for you. I did this once to get some rust utils like eza to get them to work without sudo. It’s terrible.

I mean if all your scripts are fully general purpose. That just seems really weird to me. I don’t need to run my yt-dlp scripts on the computational clusters I work on.

Moreover, none of this applies to the interactive use of the shell.

at least not on all the machines that I have to use

Ok?

What does that have to do with anything?

Always confuses me when people say this. You can use multiple different shells / scripting languages, just as you can use multiple programming languages.

leftist meme

Why would I want two different things in one?

The use of LLM had a measurable impact on participants, and while the benefits were initially apparent, as we demonstrated over the course of 4 months, the LLM group’s participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

Not really surprised, everything just keeps getting less and less repairable over time, regardless what it is

For small-scale stuff like that it will surely work. It’s unclear if it scales to youtube volumes. Maybe it doesn’t have to though, small scale stuff is valuable too.

Hosting video requires a lot more resources than hosting text, hyperlinks, or even pictures. It might be too much for individuals to self host video on a scale that could even distantly resemble how we use youtube today.

Then again, maybe there are ways to make that burden smaller. IIRC Peertube does do some p2p stuff to try and share the burden a bit but I’ve also heard that it’s not really feasible to rely on that to scale.

They can try all they want. I see that occasionally on the websites people sell their stuff on. But usually even those people are willing to sell for a reasonable offer if their ad has been up for a long time.

In my country, a lot/most of the second hand selling is done by normal people

Depending on the type of product there may be several times the necessary amount already laying around.

that’s such a pedantic point

I don’t really care, both are pretty fucking bad

I am also considering switching from an iPhone to a fairphone (or potentially something else privacy-friendly). So far I’ve heard that banking apps might be a problem. Also digital identification software feels like something that might be restricted on an alternative OS or a more open device. Does unlocking the bootloader mess with these things?

I would imagine streaming services that allow downloads might be restrictive about what they run on. Many of them do allow downlods, I know Spotify, Netflix, and most audiobook apps do at least. But I really have no idea, and would be really happy to hear from somebody with experience.

AFAIK, this is the Google translate model that you can deploy locally https://huggingface.co/google/mt5-large